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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tanya Shilina-Conte, who received a $5000 Faculty Grant for Global and International Research from the Office of International Education for her new book project, "Anonymous Cinema in the Global Age!"

Congratulations to #UBuffalo Department of English Clinical Assistant Professor Kellie Sharp, who has been awarded a Civic Engagement Research Fund grant to collaborate with the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project to bring local queer history to various sites around Buffalo in June 2025! This will happen in the form of interactive pop-up museums so visitors can learn about our local history and contribute to it in the form of oral history interviews. Read more by visiting

Congratulations to Jocelyn E. Marshall who has been awarded the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association x University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. Reviewers noted of her submission, “Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism:”

Spencer Williams, whose debut collection of poems was just published by Four Way Books. https://fourwaybooks.com/site/tranz/

Congratulations Susan Weeber, whose article, “Black Radicalism after the Haitian Revolution: Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti,” has just been published in MELUS. Here is the free-access link: https://academic.oup.com/melus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/melus/mlae046/7749545?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=melus&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=307c158e-61fb-4a35-8032-e55adceefac2

Doug Basford, Assistant Director of Composition, who has won the "Friend of EOP" award from the University at Buffalo Educational Opportunity Program for going "above and beyond" in his service to the program over the years!

Congratulations to Travis Sharp, whose second book of poetry, , was recently published with Unicorn Press and is now available!

We're excited to share the news that that Miriam Thaggert’s book, Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad, has been listed as one of three finalists for the Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).

Congratulations to Professor Rachel Ablow, who has been awarded Research Funding in the Arts and Humanities from the UB Office of the Vice Provost of Research and Economic Development and Humanities Institute for 2024-2025! This funding will support her research in the British Library for a new project on disagreement and persuasion in 19th-century literature and culture.